{"id":3353,"date":"2012-02-13T23:26:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T07:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2012-02-13T23:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T07:26:27","slug":"cd-wesla-whitfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/02\/cd-wesla-whitfield\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Wesla Whitfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wesla Whitfield, Mike Greensill Tri<\/strong>o, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/weslawhitfield3\"target=\"_blank\">The Best Things In Life<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Whitfield-Things.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Whitfield-Things.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Whitfield Things\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Whitfield-Things.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Whitfield-Things-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Whitfield-Things-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>Wesla Whitfield plugs her current of understated energy into a diverse collection that encompasses \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Best Things in Life Are Free\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from 1927, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Green\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from <em>Sesame Street<\/em>, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Walkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 After Midnight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the Patsy Cline hit parade. There are also standards by Loesser, LeGrand, Arlen and Frishberg, among others. Whitfield is often billed as a cabaret singer, but with the rhythm section of pianist Mike Greensill, bassist John Witala and drummer Vince Lateano supporting her time sense, phrasing and inflection, the fuzzy border between cabaret and jazz disappears. Nat Cole\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Errand Girl For Rhythm\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a case in point.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesla Whitfield, Mike Greensill Trio, The Best Things In Life Wesla Whitfield plugs her current of understated energy into a diverse collection that encompasses \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Best Things in Life Are Free\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from 1927, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Green\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from Sesame Street, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Walkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 After Midnight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the Patsy Cline hit parade. There are also standards by Loesser, LeGrand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}